FED Ambassador: Karl C. Pupé FRSA is a qualified classroom teacher, leader and education consultant with over 17 years experience in the primary, secondary and Further Education sectors. He is also the author of the award-winning books The Action Hero Teacher: Classroom Management Made Simple, The Action Hero Teacher 2: Teachers of the Lost Class and founder of www.actionheroteacher.com.
Specialising in Behaviour Management, he worked as a Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETs) Coordinator and an Alternative Provision Lead in a mainstream school teaching students with severe Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties. Karl has designed and facilitated rehabilitation classes for Year 8 to 11 students who were excluded from Mainstream Education and at risk of becoming NEETs. Karl has earned a Level 4 ILM Diploma in Leadership and Management in Further Education.
Karl has worked with several organisations within the education sector, including the National Education Union (NEU,) TeachFirst, NowTeach, FE Week, Charted College of Teaching, The National College, The Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Manufacture (The RSA) & the University of Essex.
The ‘Action Hero Teacher Blog’ was ranked by the influential PR and marketing software company Vuelio as one of the ‘Top 10 Education blogs’ in the United Kingdom in September 2020.
Learning Ladders, in partnership with Twinkl, have awarded the AHT book as one of the ‘Top 40 Best Books for Educators Summer 2021.’
In September 2021, Karl was awarded a fellowship at the prestigious Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (The RSA) for his work on the Action Hero Teacher & his workshops on the well-being of young people.
In November 2021, Karl was elected into the Practitioners Council for the Foundation of Education (FED Education), an independent advisory board that aims to promote better education policies for all UK students. In November 2022, Karl was promoted to the Co-Chair of the Practitioners Council, helping to shape the agenda for the council in the 23/24 academic year. This has been extended to the 24/25 academic year.
Karl released his follow-up book ‘The Action Hero Teacher 2: Teachers of the Lost Class’ on Friday 2nd December 2022 and it became an Amazon Number 1 best-selling book in its category in the first week of release.
